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Metallurgic Summonings

Enchantment

Whenever you cast an instant or sorcery spell, create an X/X colorless Construct artifact creature token, where X is that spell's mana value.
{3}{U}{U}, Exile this enchantment: Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand. Activate only if you control six or more artifacts.

CMC
5
Mana cost
{3}{U}{U}
Color identity
U
Rarity
mythic
Set
Kaladesh
Price
$1.14
EDHREC rank
#3814
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Metallurgic Summonings card art
Metallurgic Summonings turns every instant and sorcery into a Construct token sized to match it, then offers a second chapter — sacrifice six artifacts to recover your entire graveyard of instants and sorceries. The five-mana entry cost is real, but in a shell like Hinata, Dawn-Crowned where spells routinely cost two or three mana to cast, the tokens compound fast enough that Mythos of Illuna alone can drop a 7/7 and refuel the hand.

Best Commanders

Commanders with the highest synergy

01
Hinata, Dawn-Crowned

Hinata, Dawn-Crowned

48.9% of decks · synergy 0.47

Hinata, Dawn-Crowned slashes the cost of every multi-target spell in the deck, which means Metallurgic Summonings is churning out large Constructs for one or two mana — the discount applies to the spell's cost, not the token's power, so you get oversized bodies at a fraction of the rate.

02
Quandrix, the Proof

Quandrix, the Proof

32.5% of decks · synergy 0.32

Quandrix, the Proof rewards casting instants and sorceries repeatedly, and Metallurgic Summonings converts that volume directly into a board — every copy, every kicked spell, every modal piece adds another token, giving the deck a go-wide axis it would otherwise lack.

03
Magnus the Red

Magnus the Red

33.1% of decks · synergy 0.30

Magnus the Red scales his own ability off the number of spells cast, and Metallurgic Summonings layers a parallel token engine on top — each instant or sorcery that fuels Magnus's pump effect also drops a Construct, meaning the board grows in two directions at once.

04
Anhelo, the Painter

Anhelo, the Painter

23.8% of decks · synergy 0.23

Anhelo, the Painter copies the first instant or sorcery each turn, and Metallurgic Summonings counts each copy as a separate spell trigger — a single copied spell drops two Constructs, effectively doubling the enchantment's token output without any extra investment.

05
Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea

22.1% of decks · synergy 0.19

Eluge, the Shoreless Sea cares about casting noncreature spells and generates its own cascade of value, making Metallurgic Summonings a natural complement — every instant or sorcery that advances Eluge's plan also builds a board of tokens sized to threaten combat.

Format Analysis

Where it lives, where it can’t

FormatVerdict
commander legal
legacy legal
modern legal
pioneer legal
standard not legal
vintage legal
pauper not legal
oathbreaker legal

Metallurgic Summonings is a Commander card first and foremost — five mana for a passive enchantment is a tempo concession that multiplayer games can absorb, and the self-recur ability becomes genuinely broken when a 100-card deck has stocked a graveyard over ten or twelve turns. In Pioneer and Modern it's fringe at best: the token payoff is too slow against linear aggro, and spell-combo decks in those formats are trying to win the turn they go off, not build a board over several. Legacy and Vintage have access to it but have no reason to run it over faster engines. Metallurgic Summonings lives and dies in Commander, where a five-mana enchantment has time to recoup its cost and where sixty instants and sorceries in the graveyard is a realistic setup for the rebound ability.

Key Combos

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3 decks
Mythos of IllunaRadiateMetallurgic Summonings

Mythos of IllunaRadiateMetallurgic Summonings

Infinite copies of all permanents; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite mana permanents on the battlefield can produce; Infinite storm count; Return all instant and sorcery cards from your graveyard to your hand

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The Tenth DoctorMana EchoesCharnel SerenadeMetallurgic Summonings

The Tenth DoctorMana EchoesCharnel SerenadeMetallurgic Summonings

Infinite ETB; Infinite colorless mana; Infinite creature tokens; Infinite magecraft triggers; Infinite surveil; Put all creature cards from your library and graveyard onto the battlefield with finality counters on them

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Price Context

Current price

$1.14 cheap tier

At $1.14, Metallurgic Summonings sits in the bulk-rare tier — easy to pick up without thinking twice. It sees consistent Commander play in spell-heavy builds, so the floor is stable, but demand isn't concentrated enough to push it higher.

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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.